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[WH40,000] Tales of the Neckbeard and Adventures in Crazyland, 1000 FLGS stories.

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When a broken unit gets charged, they have to take a Ld test to rally or get wiped out. I failed moral (chose to fail) in his shooting phase and was charged in his assault phase, so my marine unit had to take this test.

As far as I know, Marines have nothing to stop this from happening. Did I miss something?

I've never had a case where someone forgot or accidentally missused a rule so baddly that the game would have been totally different. Usually beacuse SJ is in the vacinity to point out errors. There have been times where things would have gone slightly the other way, but nothing ground breaking.

Of course there was the one guy during the ironman tournament who tried to use his Necron Gauss guns' special rule against my IG Armored Company in close combat. (I think that's what it was.) God that was a satisfying game. Oh look, I have a Vanquisher and two Demolishers left, you have two squads of warriors.

May 2nd guys. Then college is done and it will be time for 40k again. Finally.

Well shit. According to current rumours about the new Chaos book, your HQ determines your legion. I really fucking hope it's not special characters, because the current special character do no represent the default legions.

Well shit. According to current rumours about the new Chaos book, your HQ determines your legion. I really fucking hope it's not special characters, because the current special character do no represent the default legions.

You mean Abaddon/Kharn/Typhus/Ahriman/Lucius don't? Because if that's what you're saying, you're crazy. They are all damn near the highest ranking people left from their respective legions.

Well Ahriman is kind of an exile. He represents what the legion was rather than what they've become.

Chrysis on April 2012

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Well shit. According to current rumours about the new Chaos book, your HQ determines your legion. I really fucking hope it's not special characters, because the current special character do no represent the default legions.

You mean Abaddon/Kharn/Typhus/Ahriman/Lucius don't? Because if that's what you're saying, you're crazy. They are all damn near the highest ranking people left from their respective legions.

Ahriman leads his own warband after he was kicked out of the legion for casting the rubric. Kharn is just a bloodhtirty nutter who joins with warbands to shed a bit of blood (to be fair, this is the same for any World Eater these days, but Kharne doesn't lead, he just kills). Typhus led a coup against Mortarion because he wanted to be out and about spreading nurgles love, and was kicked out by Mortarion. Lucius is the only special character that represents his legion as a whole, perfecting his skill and leading them.

The current crop of special characters (aside from Lucius) represent outcasts of the legions, not the legions themselves, and have combat styles much different to the legions they came from (for example, Mortarion despises the use of tanks, Typhus doesn't). It's like saying Shrike makes an army fight like Raven Guard. He doesn't. He makes them fight like his little band of merry men did when stranded on that planet.

The best way, if they want to make special characters do that, is give those special characters their own bonus, but make Chaos Lords with particular marks have a more 'normal' legion formation.

I was just saying this weekend I want the new Chaos codex to have a sneaky Alpha Legion that doesn't bother with demons and mutated freaks since they aren't really Chaos at all.

Shit, they're like the most loyal.

Rumour is Alpha Legion will be able to infiltrate their tanks.

Alpha Legion are the hardest to do justice to, because the way they fight means Alpha Legion shouldn't be on the table at all. They mostly get operatives to do the dirty work.

Or like, just automatically lose, because on turn 5, it's revealed that the opposing army is actually Alpha Legion, and you get to influence the game on the table next to you, because your battle was actually a diversion for Alpha Legion operatives to infiltrate that game.

I hope Night Lords at least get some kind of induced night fighting perk, or something to do with fear/terrorism...

My friends Night Lords army from the 3.5 edition codex was a blast to fight.

Everything in it either moved 12" (Bikes and Raptors) or infiltrated. The thing struck fast and hard. it was like being hit with a sack of door knobs. I mean, he still rarely beat my Salamanders with it, but it still a blast to fight and really different to the rest of his armies.

Though his tank hunting havocs with autocannons never accomplished anything. They always infiltrated into a good position to alpha strike one of my tanks off the board, then proceeded to never kill any tanks, even with 8 S8 shots per turn.

Alternate: Non-alpha legion army always deploys first. After opponent's deployment roll a die. 2-3 the left half of the deployed army is revealed to be Alpha Legion. This is now your army for the rest of the game. Adjust game for new points value. 4-5 the right half is Alpha Legion. On a roll of a one, roll again. New result is followed as above. On a subsequent one the Alpha Legion failed to infiltrate the ranks and withdraw to fight again, opponent instantly wins. On a roll of a six, roll again. New result is followed as above. On a subsequent six the Alpha Legion had succeed and the entire enemy force is taken over minus any hq units. Commence game with adjusted points values.

Obviously the second one could only be used with non-dick players and would be just for fun.

So I've been reading a lot of HP Lovecraft lately, and I'm grooving on the idea of making a Cthulhu cult army. Something fish/underwater themed, with some cultists, some mutant fishmen, some full blown deep ones (river trolls look perfect), and a star spawn or two.
What codecies would be fitting for such an army? I'm interested to see what the new SM codex entails (hopefully it can take cultists).

I would gladly pay 3x the price for models if it meant I could walk into a store pretty much anywhere and have a fun game without knowing my opponent

This happens for maybe the first month or so of going to a store here in Australia. Then you pretty much know everyone who goes there. Then you either just play people again, or try a different store.

Although some of the event nights have more folks to play.

Thats perfect too. Still meeting more people and actually wanting to play them.

Right now, I play Altmann.... that's pretty much it When my club was going strong there were 3 or 4 guys that I really, truly enjoyed playing. In this area, the odds of me walking into a store for the first time and playing a silly goose is so high, that I just don't do it anymore.

The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!

That game with the Arjac shenanigans so would have swung my way without that bullshit

The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!

The only thing I want in a Chaos Dex is playable thousand sons. I want nothing more than an army of ornate gold and blue rubric marines marching mindlessly to meet the enemy. Tsons Dreads and Termies are so awesome.

The following people are amazing and I love them: Wildcat, Timspork, Kias, Denada, susan, Sharp101, [GHSC]Ryctor, Matev, Matrias, ItBurns, Slapnuts, Dayspring, see317, and the unknown poster that sent me a box of Death Company! If you get them as Santees you should buy them amazing things!

The only thing I want in a Chaos Dex is playable thousand sons. I want nothing more than an army of ornate gold and blue rubric marines marching mindlessly to meet the enemy. Tsons Dreads and Termies are so awesome.

No, you can't play them you filthy Space Wolf goose. I am the Thousand Sons.